Milestone flight EK2021 highlights UAE’s impressive vaccination drive

Milestone flight EK2021 highlights UAE’s impressive vaccination drive

Milestone flight EK2021 highlights UAE's impressive vaccination drive

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The special flight EK2021, which carried fully vaccinated crew and passengers onboard, was unprecedented in the industry in scale.

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

Emirates' one-of-a-kind flight EK2021 proudly made a journey across the different emirates on Saturday, to celebrate the UAE's remarkable progress in vaccinating its citizens and residents from COVID-19 through a national vaccination programme that has administered close to 9 million vaccines doses to date.

All proceeds for EK2021 have been donated to the Emirates Airline Foundation, the airline's non-profit charity organisation which supports projects around the world aimed at improving the quality of life for disadvantaged children around the world.

The special flight, which carried fully vaccinated crew and passengers onboard, was unprecedented in the industry in scale.

With close to 400 fully vaccinated customers onboard, the flight illustrates confidence and undiminished excitement for air travel.

EK2021 was also supported by fully vaccinated teams across the aviation eco-system, from onboard crew to ground staff, demonstrating the readiness of the UAE's aviation eco-system to support the safe rebound of air travel.

Onboard EK2021 was a group of senior officials from key aviation and health sector entities hosted by Emirates.

Saturday's flight was operated with Emirates' newest A380